The Sociology of Identity: Authenticity, Multidimensionality, And Mobility

“In a cautionary tale of the challenges facing a company town trying to control its ‘brand,’ Kirrily Freeman explores the complicated roots of the town of Vichy's sense of identity. While ‘Vichy’ is now synonymous with the collaborationist regime of Marshal Pétain, the roots of this town's sense of identity, and of aggrievement, victimhood and stigmatization lie farther in its past, and shape it today.”
- Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo, Canada

“In a cautionary tale of the challenges facing a company town trying to control its ‘brand,’ Kirrily Freeman explores the complicated roots of the town of Vichy's sense of identity. While ‘Vichy’ is now synonymous with the collaborationist regime of Marshal Pétain, the roots of this town's sense of identity, and of aggrievement, victimhood and stigmatization lie farther in its past, and shape it today.”
- Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo, Canada

This book explores the key conceptual features of the development of the Sociology of Work (SoW) in Europe since 1945, using eleven country case studies.

Currently there is abundant evidence of the quasi-total domination of the sociology and anthropology of tourism by academics from the English-speaking world, a situation that appears to be aided and abetted by the publishers of books and articles in that language.